"We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us."

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Source : Romano Guardini (2012). “The Lord”, p.162, Regnery Publishing

Romano Guardini

#Fighting Quotes #Shepherds Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.”
“The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.”
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
“Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs." -Jaina Solo”

Source : Michael A Stackpole (2012). “Star Wars: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide Ruin”, p.41, Random House
“Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement -Â that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.”
“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
“Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.”
“If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him”

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